"The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry."

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What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.

— Christopher Hitchens